—but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I’ve got to?

“You’ve probably seen latitude and longitude specfied in both degrees/minutes/seconds, such as (47°38’34’’, 122°32’32’’), and in decimal values, such as (47.64, -122.54). With the…

— Eric Freeman

People are using GPS systems to find millions of little hidden objects throughout the world - often as simple as a piece of Tupperware…

— Ken Jennings

People used to pooh-pooh the idea of a check-in, saying that this wasn't interesting. But when you have 3 billion of those data points,…

— Dennis Crowley

“Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end? “I wonder how many miles I’ve fallen by this time?” she said aloud.…

— Lewis Carroll

“One degree of longitude equals four minutes of time the world over, but in terms of distance, one degree shrinks from sixty-eight miles at…

— Dava Sobel

When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I…

— Mark Twain

“The zero-degree parallel of latitude is fixed by the laws of nature, while the zero-degree meridian of longitude shifts like the sands of time.”

— Dava Sobel

Women, are a map, Avik. You've got to understand their longitude, and how much latitude you can take.

— Walter Russell

I have all the world around me. My walls are 180 East Longitude and 90 North and 90 South Latitude… Adventure is my guidon.

— L. Ron Hubbard

“I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud. 'I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth.…

— Lewis Carroll

“the beaches. In literally hundreds of instances, a vessel’s ignorance of her longitude led swiftly to her destruction. Launched on a mix of bravery…

— Dava Sobel

“In the wake of the Longitude Act, the concept of “discovering the longitude” became a synonym for attempting the impossible.”

— Dava Sobel

Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude?

— Christopher Fry

“With his marine clocks, John Harrison tested the waters of space-time. He succeeded, against all odds, in using the fourth—temporal—dimension to link points on…

— Dava Sobel

When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by…

— Hermann von Helmholtz